A Letter to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

What would the father of microbiology think if he could read a letter from a 21st-century student?

As part of an integrated school project, our 7th graders took on exactly that challenge - writing a letter to the legendary 17th-century scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, walking him through the remarkable discoveries about the cell that have transformed biology since his time.

The project also had a multilingual dimension: each letter was prepared in three languages - Georgian, Russian, and English, weaving together subject-area learning with the development of real communicative skills across languages.

Along the way, students sharpened their research and analytical thinking, found their voice as writers, and connected the past to the present in a way that made history feel genuinely alive.

Mentor teachers: Lika Meskhi and Fikria Tsiklauri